ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 14 March 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MISSING CLERK FOUND. By Telegraph—Press Association. Eketahuna, Yesterday. The body of R. J. McLean, who has been missing since Friday, was discovered at 11 this morniag hy Diver Petersen in a deep hole in the river about a hundred yards below ' where the overcoat was previously found. Later. At the inquest this afternoon on the body of R. J. McLean, the county clerk found in the river this morning, evidence went to show that deceased had been suffering from bad health, and during the last few days did not seem to know what he was doing. Letters written by him were partly incoherent. A verdict was_ returned that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane. FATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. Blenheim, Yesterday. Yesterday Robert Allen, a market gardener, aged 69 years, was getting into his trap, when the horse started. He was thrown out on to his head and removed to the hospital, suffering from concussion of the brain. He died this morning. He had 'been fifty years in the Dominion, and served' through the Maori war. FOUND IN THE .HARBOR. Wellington, Last Night. The body of an elderly man named Henry Wilkinson, a coal hulk employee, was discovered in the harbor near the King's wharf early this afternoon. He had boarded at a house in Tinakori 'road, but the place was full last night when he wanted a bed, and the landlady gave him Is 6d to get one elsewhere. This was the last she saw of him. It is not known how he got in the water.